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New: 10 of the best Apple apps for education in 2012 | eSchool News
However, with new upgrades in touch technology, HD and 3D features, and the debut of the iPad, we’ve come up with a new list of the best Apple-based education apps for 2012.
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Rainwater Harvesting in the Amazon Cleans up Where Oil Left its Mark
All the while, the drilling operations were pouring pollution in the area’s air and water—so much pollution that last year an Ecuadorian judge ordered Chevron to pay a total $18 billion to a group of 30,000 indigenous people, represented by a coalition of lawyers from Ecuador and North America.
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Miami Heat star LeBron James had a somewhat surprising practice that he used to focus before games, including during the final series in which he led his team to the National Basketball Association championship: He read books. Tell the kids.
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pearltrees • Google 3T + hacking
This pearltree is your surefire guide to getting the most from the world's most powerful search engine. Check it out and bend Google to your will.
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Want to disable Facebook facial recognition? Read this | Naked Security
Facebook already uses Face.com's facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the acquisition of Face.com, the technology is coming in house.
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How to Keep Facebook from Recognizing Your Face
Now that Facebook has bought facial recognition vendor Face.com, many users are worried that the giant social network will use the technology to infringe on their privacy. While you can’t stop Facebook from grabbing the facial-recognition data, there are ways to limit the service’s use of that information.
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Windsor police become social media savvy - Windsor - CBC News
Front-line Windsor police officers may soon fire a tweet from the street.
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Social news reading app Flipboard is today officially launching its Android app after its short beta period, new integration with YouTube as well as Google+ (which we heard about the other day) across platforms, and a big distribution deal with Samsung.
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No Facebook or Twitter in Class? Try These Teaching Work-Arounds | EdTech Magazine
Conversations about the use of social networks in education have become commonplace both online and off. Teachers with Twitter handles, for example, encounter discussions of this topic on a daily basis. Regardless of whether or how social networks are used in schools, mounting evidence shows that social media is already a large part of students' personal lives and most certainly will be a part of their personal and professional lives in the future
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BBC News - Digital Learning Council for Wales to help e-learning
Education Minister Leighton Andrews says the National Digital Learning Council, to include teachers and other professionals, will start in September.
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How much energy does it take to power those iPads? — Apple News, Tips and Reviews
If you are like me, then you are constantly using your iPad all the time. I like to run my iPad at full brightness and I am almost always connected to the Internet. And that means frequent visits to the electric outlet – at least twice a day. And as result I often fret about how much energy I am using on my iPad and other devices, and how they are impacting my carbon footprint.
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Microsoft Surface Models Priced at $599 for RT and $999 for Pro
Today, a source close to Microsoft has provided us with corroboration of rumored Microsoft Surface pricing, putting the Tegra 3 powered RT model at $599 retail and the Ivy Bridge packing Windows 8 Pro model at $999 retail.
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How to get students to participate in Online Discussions… | online learning insights
This post discusses how course instructors can shape and create robust and rich discussions
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Google confronts extinction of more than 3,000 languages | Internet & Media - CNET News
Google-backed initiative the Endangered Languages Project aims to help preserve the many languages slated to become extinct within the next 100 years.
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No more “Arggh! Copy, delete, paste, edit, post.” Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit comments, but users will be able to see the full edit history of a thread.
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Top 9 Free Web Tools to Develop Students Creativity
Regardless of whether this scene has really happened, the point it emphasizes is quite clear: Children have the potential for wonderous, revolutionary creativity. According to findings in neuroscience , all kids are born with innate creative powers and what really happens is that as kids grow up some of them active their creative powers but others unconsciously keep them dormant.
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Don't Use Khan Academy without Watching this First - EdTech Researcher - Education Week
I'm adding a new plank to my KA platform: no teacher or administrator should use or support the use of Khan Academy videos without watching the first episode of Mystery Teacher Theater 2000 or MTT2K. (Tip of my hat to Dan Meyer for leading me to this story.)
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Guide To Emerging Technologies in Education
With educational technology, social networking and agile apps are all the rage. Whether it's a group of students collaborating on a project or a research team seeking out resources around the globe, today’s EdTech essentials are all about keeping in touch. The emerging products, companies and high-tech tools on our list are all designed to make life easier for online teachers, students and researchers. Take a look.
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8 Things All Teachers Want Parents to Know | Team Mom - Yahoo! Shine
As the school year winds down and summer vacation begins, I have something to say about the battle between teachers and parents. Why, exactly, are we fighting one another? This is supposed to be a teamwork thing and, in some instances, I see a whole lot of Us vs. Them on the educational front.
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